How Much Land Does a Man Need?
The story of a greedy peasant named Pakhom. Although Pakhom enjoys health and family happiness, he feels dissatisfied when he learns of the grand fortunes of his relatives. He decides to go on a quest…
If you like book How Much Land Does a Man Need? here is the list of books you may also like
Buy this book on AmazonSimilar books (20)
-
White Nights
White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersburg, it is the story of a young man fighting his inner restlessness. A light and tender narrative, it d…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
-
A Nervous Breakdown (Penguin Little Black Classics, #111)
'I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to know!'
Buy this book on Amazon -
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast (Penguin Little Black Classics, #119)
'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Chrysanthemums
Elisa Allen is tending her chrysanthemums. Strong, with a handsome face she skilfully and proudly cultivates the best in the valley. Tonight, her husband is taking her to town. While she works, a sque…
Buy this book on Amazon -
I Hate and I Love
Dazzling modern lyrical poems from Catullus - by turns smutty, abusive, romantic and deeply moving.
Buy this book on Amazon
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celeb… -
The Lady with the Little Dog
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) may have suffered an untimely death, but he squeezed the most out of his 44 years of life. Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be one o…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Life of a Stupid Man
'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.'
Buy this book on Amazon
Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling.
Introducing Little B… -
The Night is Darkening Round Me
'... ever-present, phantom thing; My slave, my comrade, and my king'
Buy this book on Amazon
Some of Emily Brontë's most extraordinary poems
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Bla… -
Aphorisms on Love and Hate (Penguin Little Black Classics, #5)
'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater'
Buy this book on Amazon
This volume contains a selectio… -
-
La cata
«La cata» es uno de los más brillantes relatos de Roald Dahl. Se publicó por primera vez en la edición de marzo de 1945 del Ladies Home Journal y posteriormente fue publicado, en 1951, en The New York…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Overcoat
The Overcoat which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg stories, is a tale of the absurd and misplaced obsessions.
Buy this book on Amazon -
El ruletista
Esta pieza, tan breve como intensa, narra la improbable historia de un hombre al que nunca le ha sonreído la suerte, un desarraigado que sorprendentemente hace fortuna participando en letales sesiones…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Nose (Penguin Little Black Classics, #46)
'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me so I could see it was really a nose.'
Buy this book on Amazon
With this pair of absurd, comic stories Gogol indulges his imagin… -
The Fall of Icarus (Penguin Little Black Classics, #73)
‘Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards . . .’
Buy this book on Amazon
Enduring myths of vengeful gods and tragically flawed mortals from ancient Rome’s great poet. Ovid tells the ta… -
A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met...'
Buy this book on Amazon
Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a… -
-